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Originally Posted by ryder
Thanks for your code. I will try that as well. What is the meaning of widows: 1; orphans: 1; Just one word at the beginning and end of a paragraph is allowed?
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Basically, you can have a line/word by itself at the top or bottom of a page. 1 is the lowest setting. If you set them to 2, you would have a minimum of two lines from a paragraph at the top or bottom of a page. To see the difference, widows would be alone at the top of a page while orphans would be alone at the bottom of the page. Of course, some people define it the other way around with widows at the bottom of the page and orphans alone at the top of a page.
Basically, since ereaders do not modify the line spacing the way that physical books can, you end up with varying gaps at the bottom of a page which the widows/orphans setting helps to reduce. In theory, an ereader could use microjustication (small changes to spacing between words and letters and lines) to make text more even on page but that takes quite a bit of CPU power and memory which most ereaders do not have.